Very many people own pets and would love to make their pet portraits; so here is an easy way to make them by use demonstration of a dog portrait.

Firstly, make a grid on a piece of transparent plastic paper using a permanent marker.

Start at the bottom of the page and use a ruler to make small marks along the page that are half inch apart. Repeat this process in the whole page; this will ensure that your pet portrait is proportional.

Draw an identical grid on your drawing surface. Use a pencil and make lines that are very faint that will be very easy to erase.

Making the pet portrait

Find a picture of your dog and place the picture under the grid; make sure that the portrait has lot of details like the one that shows the eyes well. This will give your dog portrait an edge and make it look real.

Determine the point where you will start making your drawing by measuring the distance from the dog’s first eye to the top page and then find the corresponding sport on the canvas.

Use the grid that you had earlier drawn and a ruler to measure the angle distances on your subjects. This is usually done on many pets portraits to measure steepness and lengths and its an important step in making sure it has better angles and looks more real.

Sketch the angles onto the canvas. When you are finished, you should have a rough outline of the animal in angles alone, including lines on the face to represent distances between facial features.

Sketching the dog portrait

Begin your outline by drawing the first eye, whose starting point you already measured. Keep your pencil marks fairly light, and pay attention to where lines in the picture cross grid lines, replicating them on your canvas.

Measure the distance from the first eye to the second eye in the picture, then start drawing the second eye in the corresponding grid on your canvas.

Draw an outline of the entire animal by measuring distances on the picture and then matching them up on your canvas. Draw the contents of one square at a time.

Erase your grid lines as you complete each section of the dog portrait. You may be able to blend some of the lines in with your sketch as you do the shading later.

Fill in the rest of the details after your rough outline is complete, including major hair patterns.

Go back and use your pencil to shade the appropriate areas. Use a blending tortillion to create a realistic transition from shaded to non-shaded areas.

Create the look of fur by blending the shaded areas using a blending tortillion or one of your erasers.

Having made the dog portrait, you will realize that making a pet portrait is not such a hard thing to do and you can actually create many mote pet portraits without much struggle.

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